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"Lost the Bison". Losing something is unlucky or perhaps careless. The bison were not "lost", they were systematically exterminated.
by gm3dmo 7y ago
"Lost the Bison". Losing something is unlucky or perhaps careless. The bison were not "lost", they were systematically exterminated.
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- Angostura 7y agoThe word has multiple meanings. Loss of life does not mean that people mislaid their mortality down the back of the sofa.
- ptah 7y agoi agree, using "lost" is deeply misleading
- pjc50 7y agoIndeed. And the extermination of the Bison was a proxy for the extermination of the native Americans. https://www.insidescience.org/news/bison-slaughter%E2%80%99s-destructive-legacy-native-americans https://www.insidescience.org/news/bison-slaughter%E2%80%99s...
- turk73 7y agoI don't subscribe to the "Noble Savage" mythology. I'm not of the mind that European culture is all that great but somehow the technological leaps happened and those who stayed low-tech got crushed. The cycle will repeat, don't worry--we must be close to some tipping point of decadence.
- bouncing 7y agoIn Colorado, there's still some veneration of Buffalo Bill, whose claim to fame was killing buffalo with such efficiency that only the pelts were harvested from the rotting corpses blanketing the plains.